Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Have you heard of Operation Bootstrap?

This documentary from 1983, produced by CENTRO, examines the economic development plan undertaken in the 1950s to attract U.S. capital and serve as a model for the Americas. Instead, it resulted in several problematic issues the archipelago is still grappling with today.

Watch now → youtube.com/watch?v=xkLtvtEQ1uM&ab_channel=CenterforPuertoRicanStudies-Centro

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